Chernov Enterprises, Inc. v. Sarkas

This petition for certiorari was filed under the Administrative Procedures Act. The petitioner is Chernov Enterprises, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation and the operator of a restaurant and nightclub known as “The Warehouse.” It asks us to review a Superior Court judgment affirming a decision of the State Liquor Control Administrator. The administrator, in turn, had confirmed an order in which the Bureau of Licenses of the City of Providence refused to renew the petitioner’s Class B liquor retail license.

Within the time provided by law, petitioner applied to the bureau of licenses for a…